Browser Ballot Screen
Paul Thurrott wrote at the Windows Supersite today about a live view of the European Browser Ballot Screen and I decided to conduct a little experiment with it.
I browsed to the site (http://www.browserchoice.eu) and refreshed it 24 times to see where the various browsers were placed by this random ballot screen (24 refreshes plus the initial arrival).
Here are the results I got:
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
| IE |
9 |
5 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
| FireFox |
1 |
6 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
| Opera |
6 |
3 |
7 |
4 |
5 |
| Safari |
5 |
8 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
| Chrome |
4 |
3 |
3 |
7 |
8 |
The top row represents the 5 slots in which the browsers can show up in; the left side shows each browser. The data shows the number of times they showed up in the 5 slots.
So what can be told from these very unscientific results?
- Slot 1: Distro was 8 numbers apart
- Slot 2: Distro was 3 numbers apart
- Slot 3: Distro was 5 numbers apart
- Slot 4: Distro was 4 numbers apart
- Slot 5: Distro was 5 numbers apart
- Slot 1 had the greatest variation between browsers; IE (9 appearances) and FF (1 appearance)
- Slot 2 had the closest variation between browsers; Opera/Chrome (3 appearances) and Safari (8 appearances)
All in all this test does not say anything in particular because as you know numbers can be made to say anything by anyone.
What is your interpretation of these numbers? Is it random or is there a hidden outcome here?
